Several times a month we connect with our contributors showing where they have been, where they are now, and what’s up for the future.
Name: David Sklar
Title of Pieces Published in Sweet: “Real Estate“
Issues: 3.2
Find Him:
Twitter
My pet project The Poetry Crisis Line is on Facebook.
Still in New Jersey, but a few inches to the west.
Find more from David on the Poetry Crisis website.
What are some major accomplishments you have had since your Sweet publication?
Surviving.
Can you tell us about a current/ongoing project that you’re excited about?
I’ve been working on this thing called the Poetry Crisis Line, which is sort of a cartoon, sort of an intertextual experiment, at the web address I listed above.
These look super fun and we are going to check out the rest!
Who is your favorite author?
I can only pick one? I mean, maybe I can narrow it down to Toni Morrison, Charles Baxter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joy Harjo, T.S. Eliot, Richard Brautigan, Walter Tevis, Shel Silverstein, and Ursula Le Guin. But I’m sure I’m leaving someone out who I’ll think of shortly after I click Submit.
What is your favorite poem/essay/book?
My favorite poem is “The Abortion,” a traditional poem from Santal, India translated by W.G. Archer, that appears in Technicians of the Sacred, edited by Jerome Rothenberg. It deals with a couple of different castes grieving the baby they could not bring to term. It is heartbreaking but not judgmental, and the flow of it is ceremonial, but not in anything like a fixed meter that I’ve ever seen.
What inspires you to write?
Not enough, lately, though I’ve been working on getting my good habits back.
What are you reading right now?
That is one of the good habits I’m trying to get back. I read poetry a few times a week, but I’m not in the process of reading any book-length works at the moment. My favorite poem that I’ve “recently” discovered (probably late 2020) is “Aboriginal Landscape” by Louise Gluck.
What is your favorite sweet? We would love for you to share a recipe or link to place that serves it. Pictures are great, too!
Lately I’ve been into ice cream sandwiches.
We found a recipe for you try and this might be one that we give a go, too!
Thank you, David, for taking the time to reconnect with us. We look forward to seeing more of your work in the future!
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